Millennium Hotel Doha

... If you don’t want to actually send me your guesses but are curious about the answers, I’ll post pictures of the English signs shortly after the deadline.

As far as eating in goes, there are several large grocery stores where one can get most anything. It’s nearly all imported… lamb from New Zealand, beef from Australia, fruits and vegetables from Turkey, India, USA, Chile and everywhere else you ...

... wandered into a photo shot and said ID photos. One by one we had our pictures taken. They said not to smile so see the pictures for the outcome. We look like trapped Americans getting ready to be thrown into prision - my favorite is Clayton's. I picked up the photos while Annette and the kids were grocery shopping and told them they had to wait until we got to the car to look at. I broke down with humor ...

... scarfs of the type Yassir Arafat used to wear. Only their look is, in some ways, anything but tradtional. All wear sandals, but most sandals have diamond or faux diamond studs. Cell phones are attached either to their hands at all times or some have blue tooth head sets. Sunglasses are the norm it seems, with Ray Bans or Ray Ban look alikes being most popular. Some of the robes have sleeves that simply end with elastic or hang loose, but most are ...

... the stadium and came across Lewis Hamilton's F1 championship winning car. Vodafone were exhibiting it as part of their new telecommunication launch in Doha. After following the 2008 Grand Prix season and being a Lewis Hamilton fan, it was great to see the car he was actually driving. So witnessing AC Milan play football and seeing Lewis Hamilton's championship car, my introduction to Doha couldn't have got much better.

... just brown. The buildings, the ground, the sky, its all just sand floating around, not quite the loveliest city we've been to, but it was nice to be able to check out a new area of the world for free which wasn't in our itinerary. Since we only had a few hours and there wasn't too much to do here, we headed to one of the malls which was actually quite lovely inside. I can't remember ...

... able to make it to the airport in plenty of time. Or so I thought. Would you believe that my flight was moved FORWARD by a half an hour? I didn't even think that was possible! Besides departing early, I had a problem at the check-in counter which took a full thirty minutes to resolve. It seems that my reservation had been automatically canceled by the airline because I had multiple reservations. When I made the original booking, I had made some changes and apparently ...

... despair or relief under the pressure of nature's mighty force. After a while, as the damage became apparent, there was nothing more to try and salvage and we could only put out faces into the wind and feel it's blast or run for shelter. We faced the wind in all its fury. It stirred us all...equally, into a state of elation and we shouted and screamed and jumped around like children on the wall ...

... I will have enough time once I get to my hotel in Doha to finish up this weeks homework. Here's to hoping! I've got about an hour left to wait before I can go check in...It seems like I've been doing a lot of waiting lately! I had to take a taxi from Terminal 4, a small terminal that I arrived at, to Terminal 1, one of the main terminals at Dubai International. To give an idea of how large the airport grounds are, it took about 10 ...

... desk - which of course wasn't signposted) and the guy just grinned at me and gave me a voucher for a meal at a resteraunt that doesn't appear to be in the terminal. i am GAGGING for a drink.It's hard to describe the layout of the terminal with any degree of accuracy. The best example i can probably give is to say imagine a giant with all the constituant parts of an airport terminal in his fat hands. Said giant then sneezes and e'voila. Doha international airport was born.